ccr 760: hypertext rhetorics

course schedule

January 14

Recommended: Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths

Notes: Introduction to course

January 21 (MLKing holiday)

Notes: Although we will not be holding class, there is a chance that some of us may meet for an HTML/Web workshop, depending on how many are interested.

January 28

Read for class: George P. Landow, Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology, Chapters 1-4

Recommended:
Nancy Kaplan, E-Literacies: Politexts, Hypertexts, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print
Maureen Fitzpatrick, Losing Control: Writers, Readers, and Hypertext
Mindy McAdams and Stephanie Berger, Hypertext, from the Journal of Electronic Publishing
Stuart Moulthrop's Subjective Chronology of Literary Hypertext

Notes:

February 4

Read for class: George P. Landow, Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology, Chapters 5-8

Recommended:
Edward Jennings reviews Hypertext
Joseph DiNunzio reviews Hypertext 2.0
Charles Ross reviews both Hypertext 2.0 and Hyper/Text/Theory

Notes:

February 11

Read for class: Michael Joyce, Afternoon, a Story

Recommended:
Michael Joyce's Twelve Blue, originally published in PostModern Culture

Notes: Website development project due

February 18

Read for class: Michael Joyce, Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics

Recommended:
Allan Heaps reviews Of Two Minds for Kairos
Jim Rosenberg reviews Of Two Minds

Notes:

February 25

Read for class: Essays (Birkerts, Dobrin, others TBA)

Recommended:
Laura Miller's www.claptrap.com

Notes: Proposal for Individual Hypertext due in class

March 4

Read for class: Jane Yellowlees Douglas, The End of Books -- Or Books without End? Reading Interactive Narratives

Recommended:
Alex Soojung-Kim, Hypertext, the Next Generation: A Review and Research Agenda
Christopher Dean reviews The End of Books for Kairos

Notes:

March 11 (Spring Break)

March 18

Read for class: Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Nostalgic Angels: Rearticulating Hypertext Writing

Recommended:
Mary Ann Eiler reviews Nostalgic Angels for Kairos
Scott DeLoach reviews Nostalgic Angels
Joseph Wilferth reviews Nostalgic Angels for RCCS

Notes: CCCC this week (March 20-23)

March 25

Read for class: Espen Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature

Recommended:
Nick Montfort, Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star [Be sure to peruse the responses by Katherine Hayles and M. D. Coverley]
Marku Eskelinen, Cybertext Theory and Literary Studies, A User's Manual

Notes:

April 1

Read for class: M. D. Coverley, Califia

Recommended:

Notes: Collaborative Class Notes end

April 8

Notes: Progress reports on Individual Projects

April 15, 22, 29

Notes: Project Workshops

Individual Projects and Final Exam due on last day of finals